Art Quotes · Page 305

Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.

— Dorothy Parker

Form is never more than an extension of content.

— Robert Creeley

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

— Andre Maurois

“You may not be a work of art, but you are definitely a piece of work.”

— Amy Harmon

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

— Richard King

One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare...

— Clement Greenberg

Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.

— Eli Siegel

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

— Henry David Thoreau

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

— Wendell Berry

Basically I feel like my role is to find great songs with the artists, for the artists, and have them shine.

— Dr. Luke

Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have…

— Emmanuel Benbihy

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the…

— Jean M. Auel

Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.

— Andy Serkis

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

— Octavio Paz

As an artist I'm very aware of what I call Picasso-napkin syndrome - I've got this 20th century version of the midas…

— Grayson Perry

Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.

— Richard Eyre

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go…

— Sharon Salzberg

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced…

— A. E. Housman

“In the art of peace, a single cut of the sword summons up the wondrous powers of the universe. That one sword…

— Morihei Ueshiba

I was kind of thrown into - I didn't expect to do this for a living, being a recording artist. I was…

— John Prine

One thing about Kurt [Cobain] is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist,…

— Brett Morgen

Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside,…

— Sara Shepard

“In the case of an artistic practice that performs female narcissism..., the threat lies in its making superfluous the arbiters of artistic…

— Amelia Jones

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate…

— Anna Deavere Smith

That’s the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.

— Ella Leya

All the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.

— Dionne Warwick

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

— Anselm Kiefer

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

— Plato

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

— Mariel Hemingway

“Writing is a place and getting there is the real art,” Otto Cristóbal Almeida.”

— Samuel Zamarripa

“The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb' (Andre Breton qtd. p. 55)”

— Christina Burrus

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Mentalism is the art of exploring and revealing hidden connections.

— Jay Sankey

In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.

— Lawren Harris

I feel like fashion and style is a big part of being an artist.

— Chanel West Coast

“If ever I was running, it was towards you.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

— Cheryl Strayed

I believe every artiste, at some point, needs to take a step back.

— Adnan Sami

All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.

— Armand Trousseau

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.

— Henry David Thoreau